Black Dues! Black Blues! Black News! , Ted Joans trumpets in his tribute to Langston Hughes. What Library Journal wrote in 1969 holds true today: "This collection of his work clearly reveals the influ
Twenty-five-year-old first novelist Pearl Christomo incorporates her memories of her elusive father and preoccupied mother, scenes from movies, Shakepeare's "Hamlet," and other works of literature int
Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She’s a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hoot…it’s heartening to know what poetry can still do.—Lawson
Praise for LeAnne Howe:"Howe's voice is so utterly unique, comparisons can't do her justice. . . . This volume is a gift from a rich place-wise, generous, exciting, and completely fresh." —Susan Powe
This new volume presents short stories from the past twenty-five years by a master of contemporary fiction, collected in book form for the first time.The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise the
"From Paris Review and New Yorker cartoonist Jason Novak, a history of the scrappy beginnings of baseball, told in 101 one-sentence biographies. I like to think of the book as a visual essay that high
In poems rich with sensuality and discord, Mukomolova explores her complex identity—Russian, Jewish, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian— through the Russian tale of Vasilyssa, a young girl left to fend for
"Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner in the city, counting them
When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”—someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she fa
Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. Steeped in Somali na
In a trio of linked stories set in Budapest, three expatriates--a world-renowned composer, a U.S. Army soldier, and an aspiring musician--struggle to make their way in an increasingly complex world.
